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Plan of the proposed English fort at Bombay, India, shown soon after the cession...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/209
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This record is about the Plan of the proposed English fort at Bombay, India, shown soon after the cession... dating from [1665] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPF 1/209
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1665]
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Description (What the record is about)
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Plan of the proposed English fort at Bombay, India, shown soon after the cession of the island. No scale shown.
This may be the plan enclosed in a letter (CO 77/9 no 142) from Humphrey Cooke to Lord Arlington, dated 23 December 1665, in which he gives an account of the construction of this fort. However, this plan represents a more elaborate work than anything known to have been constructed then. -
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- SP 112/40
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 43.8 cm x 66 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Reproduced as frontispiece to Sir W Foster, The English Factories in India, 1665-7 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906-1927, 13 volumes).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3982153/
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MPF 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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